Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , because while they apply primarily to those who work on their own account , they may equally be used by employees who work for companies which do not have a pension scheme or which have a scheme for which they , as individuals , are not eligible . |
| 2 | Even though they may already be thinking about their appearance , and becoming fashion-conscious , on many occasions all this is forgotten and , in running , dancing or laughing , they revert to a natural ease through which a certain innocence shines . |
| 3 | They may soon be joined by elected sympathisers . |
| 4 | The concern is expressed on behalf of defendants in custody because they may ultimately be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences , and on behalf of defendants on bail because of the uncertainty and unpleasantness of a pending criminal trial . |
| 5 | What they may unconsciously be looking for is containment . |
| 6 | They may even be taught that the mind is organised around this kind of contrast , which is ‘ natural ’ in language and thought . |
| 7 | They may even be found in the Link trainer or , perhaps , in the Navigation Section ! |
| 8 | They may even be held by the same people . |
| 9 | Otherwise , if the team does n't show up after one or two public announcements , they may well be disbarred . |
| 10 | They may still be in a considerable amount of pain and shock , they will undoubtedly have financial worries and they may well be experiencing difficulties in coming to terms with the implications of the accident for themselves and their families . |
| 11 | Feelings that have been firmly repressed , near the surface yet still not sufficiently available to be formed into words , can express themselves through bodily symptoms ; if these feelings relate to permeability , they may well be expressed on the skin - rashes , blotches , spots and boils — and become boundary symptoms . |
| 12 | For other social groups , however , they may well be seen as back regions to be avoided . |
| 13 | They may well be tempted to take their businesses private again . |
| 14 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 15 | They may , let me just explain the track then , in those situations they may well be investing in the depots , maintenance and so on , but let me just |
| 16 | They may well be faced with owners who demand that the operation be done , with the only alternative that their pet cat be destroyed . |
| 17 | Least successful so far in winning customers has been the Eucom joint venture between France Telecom and the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , but even they may well be welcomed as WorldPartners by AT&T , despite the heavy whiff of state bureaucracy that hangs over both of them . |
| 18 | Waterlilies can be allowed to die back naturally , but any leaves with soft , crumbling edges or spreading black blotches should be regarded with suspicion and removed , as they may well be infected by waterlily leaf spot . |
| 19 | In view of the wide effects that defects in this metabolic system can have on the body , they may well be suited to study of the polychrests — that is , the remedies with a wide sphere of action such as Natrum muriaticum , silica , sepia , lycopodium , sulphur , phosphorus or lachesis to name but a few . |
| 20 | If these latter are part of the design team then already we have a matrix organisation but they may well be provided on a service basis from some other part of the parent organisation . |
| 21 | Or they may just be building up their forces to start another attack . |
| 22 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
| 23 | They may be played by two people , or by more than two people ; they may also be played by one person who performs both task and maintenance behaviours . |
| 24 | The most popular closed back items are usually referred to as " superfine Pekings " ( or just " Pekings " ) , although they may also be called Tientsins , Sinkiangs or simply Chinese . |
| 25 | They may also be duplicated by physical models , are not destroyed by bleaching and all the component wavelengths of the incident light are to be found in either the reflected , scattered or transmitted fractions . |
| 26 | They may also be expressed syntactically , for instance by manipulating the order of elements in a clause to indicate certain relations between the elements or the function of the clause ( cf. the difference between the order of elements in a statement and a question in English : She had forgotten about the party . |
| 27 | It is common practice in the carpet trade to use the term " Anatolian " to describe items made in Turkey , although they may also be referred to as Turkish or Turkey rugs . |
| 28 | The Polish sausages Wieska and Tuchowska are generally sold in rings for slicing and heating , although they may also be eaten cold . |
| 29 | They may also be created by words which associate with each other . |
| 30 | They may also be shaped by personal reaction to the passage of events . |